Accomplishments for the week off...

[catherineldf]

1. Thoroughly dusted house and clean office. Huzzah! Next up: the kitchen and washing the floors. Oh yeah and finally finishing my new website. And answering the bunches of email I still owe people.
2. Numerous fun-filled social engagements, including shopping with elisem, a return to the Museum of Russian Art to look at lovely boxes and paintings with my pal Rebecca and the charming [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], hanging out with friend and neighbors on Xmas and its aftermath, lunch with the talented thaedeus, an LOTR marathon with mr_bad_example and a lovely tea party (with belly dancing!) hosted by a friend from the Jane Austen Society.
3. No resolutions so far except for maybe starting a one act play I had an idea for yesterday. Not that I know much if anything about writing a play, just that someone else thought it would be fun. Also planning on continuing onward with my new project - reading the Tiptree bio concurrently with the Tachyon collection of her stories. Should bog me down in existential despair quite nicely, I think.
Happy New Year's, everyone!

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

boxes! woot!

sadly, there are no prints of that picture i like. foo. i shall have to keep the name in my pocket and keep looking occasionally for the next thirty years or so. oh, well.

Oh rats!

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Maybe if you bug TMORA about it, they'll start doing prints? No reason they shouldn't - xtra money for them and such.

Re: Oh rats!

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

ooooh. good point!

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[evilroygato.livejournal.com]

Erin cannot finish the last 75 pages of the Tiptree Bio because of the existential downward spiral with its spectacularly depressing yet possibly practical ending.

Whenever we have conversations about the state of the world--for example, today's lunchtime feature on the nasties of Corporate Agri-Business causing Mad Cow and E Coli--I particularly enjoy mentioning the possibilities of what I call "The Tiptree Solution" to put things in perspective. You know, just in case.

:)

Yes but...

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

poor Alice was kind of wacky in an unhealthy sort of way. And as I am currently employed for the moment at one of those same scary agribusiness giants (about which I must occasionally yell "Ick!" upon exiting the building), I can vouch for the fact that it is not worth shooting anyone over. But certainly worth eating organic, local and free range for the rest of one's natural existence. Or moving someplace more civilized. :-)

[thaedeus.livejournal.com]

Lunch was great. I do so miss the writerly chats we used to have to
fill in the gaps at bullseye club. Switching back to short fiction and
maybe the F novel for the new year. Won't be able to put music away,
but I will do fewer pieces and space them further apart.

Am reading "the bio" as well. Interestingly (I guess) I have had some
similar (if mostly less spectacular) problems with manic depression
for many years, so some of it hits a little too close to home. Still love
it though. How could I not?